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(MOtieL) AUTOMATIO STEM PESSARYu 2 No. 372,922. Patented Nov. 8, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PAT NT EFIQE.

ALICE O. MOCORD, OF OOLFAX, WVASHINGTON TERRITORY.

AUTOMATIC STEVM-PESSARY.

- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 372,922, dated November 8, 1887.

Application filed December 31, 1886. Serial No. 223.126. (Model-l To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, ALICE O. MCCORD, a

citizen of the United States, residing at (101- fax, in the county of Whitman and Territory of Washington, have invented a new and useful Automatic Stein-Pessary for Use in the Treatmentof Diseases of the \Vomb, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is a cervical cup and intrauterine stem attached for the purpose of applying medicine to the cervix uteri and holding it in place during treatment of diseased condition of the womb.

Figure 1 is a side view of the stem of the pessary. Fig. 2 is a sectional view showing the practical application of the pessary. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the pessary.

The instrument consists of a conical cup (see Fig. 3) of hard or soft rubber or any other material suitable, with a central stem on the concave surface, which stem may equal or exceed the height of the cup, as occasion requires, in treating different diseases of the cervix, said stem to be cylindrical in form, but swelled at each extremity and perforated with a central cavity from the face extremity to within one-fourth of an inch of-its base, where it terminates in a cross slot, (see Fig. 2,) the perforated stem answering the doublepurpose of keeping the instrument in place and also for applying and equally distributing medicine to the endometrium of the cervix.

The advantages of the instrument are that any medicine may be applied to the neck of the womb and the cervical endometrium at the same time, and the medicine held in place during the entire day or night without inconvenience to the patient, the action of the vaginal wall upon the yielding surface of the cup constantly irrigating the inner surface of the neck of the womb through the vertical and transverse cavities of the central stem, (see Fig. 2,) and the same returning between the stem and cervical wall.

' I am aware that patents have been granted for rubber pessaries having a stem provided with perforations to allow the secretions of the uterus to escape. This I disclaim.

\Vhat I do claim is As a new article of manufacture, the softrubber pessary hereinbefore described, the

same consisting of the concavo-convex partand the stem having longitudinal and crossslots in its upper portion and projecting from the concave side of the other part, with which it is molded integrally, as described.

ALICE O.. MOOORD. \Vitnesses: It. L. MoORosKEY,

G. M. KINOAID. 

